Source: Make WordPress: Accessibility

I’ve only just realised that Admin Bar links contain tabindexes. That’s bad enough but they’re not really in an intuitive/logical order. Can they be removed in a future version?

Has anyone tested the accesskeys in the HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. editor whilst using AT software such as JAWS? I’m really concerned about all of those non-numeric shortcut keys. #accesskeys

If you’ll be at SXSW this year, RSVP to come to the WordPress party on the 12th! Snacks, booze, WordPress people, what more could you ask for? No SXSW required, just an RSVP. Also, if anyone wants to volunteer at the booth to help people with their sites/answer questions, get in touch with Rose, who…

Hey @esmi et al: With the new plugin page headers (see https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/ https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/ https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-logo/ for examples), what if anything should we be doing around alt tags for those images? #alt, #images

WordPress 3.3 is coming up on RC1 (meaning it’s close to launch). We tried to catch as many accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with…

Changed a couple of settings: Must fill in name and email, but removed the ‘must have previously approved’ setting so now comments go live immediately instead of waiting to be moderated. Close comments on posts older than 14 days old. Comments go unnoticed, and no action gets taken. Hopefully discussions can get to agreement within…

Do people think it is better for the dashboard menus down the left side to work as described in A, B, or C: A. Tabbing goes from top-level item to its subs and cycles through them, then proceeds to the next top-level item, etc., and hitting Enter/Return acts as clicking on the link to whatever…

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-reorder-items-in-custom-menu-without-dragging #jaws-admin

Try to figure out why it was considered necessary to add the title of an image as a title attribute to the image markup when inserting images into a post. Whose idea was that? The image’s title attribute serves no real purpose for sighted users but creates a whole load of completely unwanted noise for…

Hello, accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) experts. We were recently contacted by Jeanne…